The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-05
LIGHTNING FROM LowNDEsvILLE.
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Our House.
LowSDESyILLE, Sept. %, 1887.
Still dry and dusty.
\ little rain lust Friday night.
| If the ground had been thoroughly soaked
with water, we might have had big frost,
Saturday morning.
Mr.. Jno. 6. l.omnX and wife and Master
Robert Watkins returned to their Augusta
! home last Monday.
Some OF our citizens attended Rev. r. II.
Letters meeting at Salem on last Tuesday.
Miss Lilly Barr, of Anderson &. H., spent
several day last week with her friend, MISS
johnnie ~peCr.
Onr sick-Dr Horton, Mr.. Jno. Watkins and
| NJ ISIS Matte Bake arc now rOnvalescing.
Mrs VIM. Arnold an aged lady, a. lifelong
member OF tho Baptist church was stricken
with paralysis last Wednesday, died on
Thursday. and her remains were % cnrried TO TO
Baptist cemetery. .
ii is not often that our community is called
upon To mourn the death OF tHo of its citizens
In one week. On Friday the aged mother OF
our townsmen MeSsrs. j. and s. =. Baker, Mrs.
Lany Baker, departed this life. She was In
her Sith year --had been Il consistent member
OF the Methodist church for more than 70
years. Her iIe record, not only rs church
member, hut also in all the relations OF llie,
was such as to enliile her 10 be called u good
woman. Her remains were deposited III
smyrna cemetery. Rev. W. $. Martin ofilci-
utlns.
The up passenger train OF the Savannah
Valley Railroad did not pass this point laSi
Tuesday night ill about o'clock p m. 1t
was delayed at Mccormick on account OF the
up freight from Augusta. The engine had 10
return to McC, rmick Saturday evening, on
account Of The very heavy freight, at that
point for this line; 1t passed up again about
10 O'Clock at night.
Mr. Thompson our telegraphic operator for
some time has been ordered to Atlanta. Mr..
Hollis Edwards will fill his place here.
4 few days ago DR.. A. j. Spcer was riding
quietly along when a goose Of Il calf scared
his goose OF q horse ana it threw him into a
ditch, he however landed "a setting" and not
much hurt.
The Nations correspondent OF the Medium,
inSlnuulingly, at least, "goes for some OF our
sanctitcd brothers, when they 90 to town." A
want OF confidence has sent many struggling
soul To ruin.
Prof. Virgins in predicting q great storm,
for the 10Th, last Monday did not exactly
come in one OF IT," He missed 1t about one
hundred and twenty two. On that day,
which had been preceded by several east
windy days, which seemed a fOrerunner oil an
equinnxtial gale we had some rain and wind,
but the most consummaie storni'dreuuer'
could not, with the most active imagination,
have called that, q stormy day.
Some rather strange phenomena occurred
ut the me of our last heavy rain In the FORK
In that locality, there. were some vrritaoIe
waterspuutS or something else. There are
spots, fifteen or twenty feet In diameter, ana
as many feet in depth, where the lanu was
washed away, with trees of considerable size
These spots look as II volumes OF water had
been poured out here, and no where else: No
one that / have heard OF witnessed these
strange occurrences. bit their effects have bceI
| seen, by as credible witnesses as can be found.
| THIS ear, Mr.. !. II. McCalla planted be-
tween five and six acres in sugar cane. He
| made from them, about one hundred and
| tM cnty five gallons OF syrup, seventeen nun.
urrd bundles of fodder and one hundred and
.hn, lt
land would lot have made mnrc taui TWO
hundred pounds .! seed cotton per acre.
Mr.. u. Berry Allen Is one Of our ,wiSest
| therefore prosperous iarmeis To date he has
gathered nearly two Thousand bushels o: corn,
and not more Than haIf done. arc hts gather
e,i loads upon loads Of the finest pe;t-fine
sp. ing, and lac is row putting sGmr Of his
large cOrii ciup into quite number OF hogs,
and thereby VIII raise all OF his meat:
Mr.. Frank Durre, Of Abbeville has Just
| spent Il day or two ut ''nur home"
one of our rising young men was "spotted'
Il few niS hts ago.
Am sorry 10 say 1t. but one Of our best
young men will have to 90 To Utah, provided
him are carried out. Ask Tohe about II.
While other localities are having their
strange epdemicS we too can boast or ours.
Two or three weeks since. at least three OF our
hest and most prominent young men. taken
with u sort of restlcssncss at night, accom-
panied by very sight loss Of appetite, anu
now they are bad on. At certain lmcs they
arc taken with violent shaking, and look ~
II two or three first class agues had 'double-
teamed" on them. Those afflicted ones have
our syInratics. We sincerely hope no more
of our young men Will he attacked, as the
busy season is upon us, and all Of them, art
constantly needed. There IS however one
consolation, there ia not enough OF the disease
"to go round" Another con-Oing Thought
is that II 1t proves fatal In one case that Will
kill the disease. Lest the same thing may
"hrrHk out" elsewhere. will state, that ou;
Doctors have mol been called in, nor have any
of them rNpr, sscd III opinion In regard To H.,
cXccp; Dr. MOSelcy WHO, although a skilled
and r.lablr dentist is not sufficiently well
yrrsed In the Inateriu medlca, as to correctly
diagnose. a disease where the whole system Is
unGer the dominion OF Il strange malady.
We have huwever decided to call IL the
brock nt0uian fever, something moi found "in
the books" TROUPE.